Chelsea Music Festival announces Jazz Finale: Warren Wolf plays Chick Corea with Alex Brown and Ivalas Quartet at St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, 315 West 22nd Street, NYC, set for Saturday, June 27, 2026 from 7-9pm ET. Tickets are $85 and can be reserved at https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2026-events/june27/. The 2026 Chelsea Music Festival closes in style with a Jazz Finale featuring acclaimed vibraphonist Warren Wolfand pianist Alex Brown, joined by the Ivalas Quartet. Together, they will perform the New York Premiere of Chick Corea's Lyric Suite for Sextet, a sweeping six-movement work and a fusion of jazz and classical sensibilities. Warren Wolf, vibraphone Alex Brown, piano Ivalas Quartet Tiani Butts, violin Reuben Kebede, violin Marcus Stevenson, viola Pedro Sanchez, cello Program Alex BROWN The Old Line Chick COREA Lyric Suite for Sextet \(NY Premiere\) Reception to follow by Melba’s Restaurant. Chelsea Music Festival is a proud partner of Steinway & Sons. Click to see full list of Festival Sponsors. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Warren Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, Maryland. Warren is an International touring musician and has performed throughout the United States of America, South America, Canada, Italy, Spain, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Scotland, London, Greece, Singapore, Thailand, Jarkata, Bangkok, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow and many other countries. Warren has made ten recordings, most notably for Mack Ave Records. Warren is a member of the SFJAZZ Collective and Christian McBride & “Inside Straight”. Warren is a faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD & the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA. Warren endorses Musser Vibraphone and Marimbas and Innovative Percussion Mallets. warrenwolf.com GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and composer Alex Brown is at the forefront of a new generation of genre-defying artists. Hailed by The New York Times for his “crystalline touch and worldly approach,” Brown fuses jazz, classical, Latin, and contemporary traditions with a singular voice as both an improviser and composer. He was a co-recipient of the 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Compendium for Passion for Bach and Coltrane, alongside Jeff Scott, Imani Winds, and Harlem Quartet. In 2025, Brown was commissioned by Lyrica Baroque in New Orleans to compose a new sonata for oboe and piano, further expanding his contributions to the contemporary chamber music repertoire. In 2023, he wrote the string arrangements for Kendrick Scott’s Unearthed, featuring the Harlem Quartet. He has created orchestral and large ensemble works for artists such as Cynthia Erivo and the National Symphony Orchestra, Bobby Broom and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown’s Global Big Band, and Andre Nickatina, with whom he reimagined the rapper’s music for orchestra in a genre-bending collaboration. His versatility has also led to work in film, TV, and commercial campaigns for brands such as Orbitz, Zimmermann, Omega, and Vogue. Born in 1987 and raised in Columbia, Maryland, Brown earned a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory and a Master of Music in Studio Jazz Writing from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. He currently serves on the faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, and has also taught at the New School, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and NYO Jazz. Brown is a Yamaha Artist. alexbrownmusic.com Hailed by The Strad for playing with “tremendous heart and beauty,” the Ivalas Quartet has been changing the face of classical music since 2017 with a mission to enrich the classical music world by spotlighting past and present BIPOC composers alongside the standard repertory. They have championed the music of Eleanor Alberga, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Alvin Singleton, and George Walker, and premiered Derrick Skye’s Deliverance through a commission from Caramoor and recorded Carlos Simon’s Warmth from Other Suns for Rising Sun Music. They are the 2024-2025 Curator/Ensemble of the Schneider Concerts at The New School. The Ivalas Quartet was the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School from 2022 to 2024, where they studied with the Juilliard String Quartet, and were previously in residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder under the mentorship of the Takács Quartet. In turn, they have devoted themselves to educational and community outreach, working in tandem with such organizations as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New Latin Wave, and countless public schools throughout the U.S. The members of the Ivalas Quartet – violinists Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts, violist Marcus Stevenson, and cellist Pedro Sánchez – have a shared dedication to their roles as educators. The quartet has nurtured students from the early stages of their musical journey to the collegiate level, with coaching experience including residencies at the University of Michigan’s Center Stage Strings program, the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Central Arkansas, Madeline Island Chamber Music, and the MacPhail Center for Music. In New York City, they have coached student groups at The Juilliard School in both the preparatory and undergraduate divisions. The Quartet has worked with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center through the Society’s Chamber Music Beginnings since 2022. ivalasquartet.com ABOUT THE CHELSEA MUSIC FESTIVAL Chelsea Music Festival celebrates great music by convening world-leading musicians & artists in the performing, culinary, and visual arts for an international audience. The Festival invites artists, composers, and performers to collaborate in pursuit of new perspectives in artistic expression. Inspired by its Chelsea roots, the Festival reflects the creativity of one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods. Programs span musical genres ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz with a special emphasis on Festival commissions by composers whose works are not in the traditional western canon. In addition, the Festival hosts an online library of recordings so music enthusiasts, artists, and students alike can explore unique interpretations of classical, jazz, and contemporary works via high-quality videos of world-class performances. Since 2010, the Festival has established itself as a critically-acclaimed, accessible and interactive gateway to chamber music in non-traditional concert spaces such as art galleries, public squares, schools, and churches. Programming includes concerts, lectures, exhibitions, family events, and free outreach performances. In 2020, the Festival inaugurated its Online Encores and Online Originals YouTube series; Online Encores presents highlights from Festival archives while Online Originals presents new performances and recordings. We are proud to give emerging voices, particularly those of women and people of color, a stage and work to build an audience and intimate community to support a new generation of musicians, composers, and artists. Festival Sponsors & Partners: Aion Entertainment, Arts and Minds, Brotherhood Winery, The Cannery Collective, Carl Brandt, Inc., Columbia Alumni Association Arts Access, Concert Theatre Works, Con Edison - Veterans Group, Consulate General of Germany in New York, Fordham University, German International School New York, Groupmuse, Innovative Percussion, Institute of Culinary Education, Denise and Michael Kellen Foundation, Masterwork Arts Foundation, Materials for the Arts, Music Conservatory of Westchester, National Endowment for the Arts, New School College of Performing Arts, Niederegger, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Open Jar Studios, Pier 57, Poets House, Radeberger Gruppe USA, Sennheiser, Skylight Arts Productions, Steinway & Sons, Tarisio Fine Instruments & Bows, Vet Tix, WBGO, Weinhaus Traubengold, WQXR, Xtronx. 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